So, I'm trying to work my way through the setup here, and am very confused on how exactly you deploy Orchestrator properly. We will be doing a multi-tenant configuration in the long run if that makes a difference in the layout.
Inside VCAC, I see three places that reference Orchestrator:
1) Infrastructure Tab -> Endpoints
2) Administration Tab -> Advanced Services -> Server Configuration
3) Each Tenant's Admin Tab -> Advanced Services -> Server Configuration
First of all, what's the difference/use case here? Is one for external workflows and the other for fully vCAC managed workflows?
Initially I enabled the VCO embedded with the VCAC appliance, I then specified it to use an MSSQL instance, and it recreated the database there and all was well. I could see a large number of workflows like in the attached screenshot. I repeated this process on a standalone VCO appliance (using another dedicated database), and it worked just the same. I used my vCenter server license key to license the VCO instance.
At some point though, a bunch of workflows got deleted as I tried the three configurations above, damn near all of them to be exact, and I'm thinking maybe this is a result of my current VCAC license level (Cloud Suite Advanced) or something of the sort. Now both the vCAC embedded VCO and the dedicated VCO appliance I deployed look like this:
Is this intentional? When and where did this happen?
I see that some of my questions were partially answered here: Difference between Advanced Services endpoint and Infrastructure Endpoint
However, what gives with my VCO workflows disappearing? I build a second VCO appliance and have it configured as both an IAAS endpoint and a XAAS endpoint, the workflows are still there for now.
Further, I'm no Orchestrator guru, but it would appear that packages have been removed, though the plug-ins remain installed. I've exported and imported a vCenter package from another orchestrator box and now the workflows are back.
This solution here: vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 has no vCenter workflow in library.
Seems to have fixed my Orchestrator workflow issue. The question is, how did this happen, and did vCAC cause it?